Carriage-top



(No Model.)

B. FLEOK 82; J. BOYD.

OARRIAGE TOP. No. 248,440. Patented Oct. 18,1881;

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMANUEL FLEOK AND JOHN BOYD, OF LA GRANGE, INDIANA.

CARRIAGE-TOP.

SPECIFICATION forming- ;part of Letters Patent No. 248,440, datedOctober 18, 1881. Application filed September 2, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMANUEL FLECK and JOHN BOYD, of La Grange, in thecounty of La Grange and State oflndiana, have invented a new andImproved Attachment for Adjusting Carriage-Tops, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved attachmentfor facilitating, raising, and lowering of a carriage or buggy top bythe person occupying the seat of the buggy or carriage.

The invention consists in a hand-lever pivoted to the end of the seat orrailing, and provided with a pivoted locking-lever having at its lowerend an eccentric resting against the edge of a semicircular plateattached to the end of the seat or railing, to which hand-lever ajointedlever is pivoted, which has its other end attached to a rod connectingthe jointed braces of the buggy-top, whereby, when the hand-lever isturned toward the back of the seat the jointed braces will be folded andthe carriage-top lowered. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of abuggy-top provided with myimproved attachment forlowering and raisingit. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side or longitudinal elevation of theattachment and part of the top, showing the same lowered. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the attachment.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A hand-lever, A, is pivoted to the end of the seat B, and to thishand-lever A, a locking-lever, 0, is pivoted, provided at its lower endwith an eccentric, D, resting on a semicircular plate, E, fastened tothe end of the seat B. A spring, F, presses the locking-levcrOfrom-thehand-lever A. Ajointed lever, G, is pivoted at one end to the lever A,and the other end is attached to the cross-bar H, connecting the jointedcross-bars J of the buggy or carriage top R, which is of the ordinaryconstruction, with three bows, L L L and is pivoted to the end of theseat B. Thecenter of the semicircular plate E mustcorrespond with thepivot of the lever A.

The operation is as follows: As long as the the spring F the top cannotbe folded, for the eccentric D will catch on the edge of the semi- 4circular plate E, and will lock the lever A in position, and will thusprevent the top from being folded as the jointed brace-rods J are unitedwith the hand-lever, and if the latter is locked the jointed bracecannot be folded; but if the top K is to be folded, the lockinglever Uis drawn toward the lever A, as shown in Fig. 2, whereby the eccentric Dwill be disengaged t'rom the edge of the semicircular plate E, thuspermitting the hand-lever A to be operated. If this hand-lever A isturned in the direction of the arrow to the cross-rod H and the lowersection of the braces J will be turned in the same direction and the topwill be folded. By turning the leverA in the inverse direction thejointed brace-rod will be straightened and the top K raised. As soon asthe lever O is released it locks the lever A in position, andconsequently the top K will be held in the position it had at the time.

The top can be folded to adinita person into the vehicle, or it may befolded half-way or entirely by simply operating the lever A more orless.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. In a carriage-top, the combination, with thejointed brace-rod J, of the jointed lever G, the hand-lever A, thelocking-lever O, and the semicircular plateE,substantially as hereinshown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a carriage-top, the combination, with the jointed brace-rod J, ofthe jointed lever G, the hand-lever-A, the locking-lever 0, providedwith an eccentric, D, the spring F, and the semicircular plate E,substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose setforth.

EMANUEL FLEOK. JOHN BOYD.

Witnesses:

W. O. GLASGOW, J. E. MoGLAsKEY.

